By choice of party ideologue Mikhail Suslov, only successes would be announced. Korolev became Professor Sergeev, and Glushko Professor Petrovich. Then, on January 2, 1959, the 1st Cosmic Ship made it. It carried a detector of gas, magnetic fields, ions, meteoroids, and cosmic rays. On January 3, 1959, it released, as planned, a tail of sodium vapor to make it visible, but it missed the Moon, albeit narrowly (6,000 km). It was called the 1st Cosmic Ship, to hide the fact that it was designed to hit the Moon. Only in 1963 was it renamed Luna 1. The Americans followed, missing the Moon with Pioneer 4 by a full 60,000 km. On September 13, the 2nd Cosmic Ship finally hit the Moon, not far from where Apollo 15 would land.
